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V-256516

CAT II (Medium)

The Photon operating system messages file must have the correct ownership and file permissions.

Rule ID

SV-256516r958566_rule

STIG

VMware vSphere 7.0 vCenter Appliance Photon OS Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V1R4

CCIs

CCI-001314

Discussion

Only authorized personnel should be aware of errors and the details of the errors. Error messages are an indicator of an organization's operational state and can provide sensitive information to an unprivileged attacker.

Check Content

At the command line, run the following command:

# stat -c "%n is owned by %U and group owned by %G with %a permissions" /var/log/messages

If the "/var/log/messages" directory is not owned by root or not group owned by root, or the file permissions are more permission than "640", this is a finding.

Fix Text

At the command line, run the following commands:

# chown root:root /var/log/messages

# chmod 0640 /var/log/messages